Ryan Montgomery

The issue, which we could get more into this later, but there's platforms out there that are trying to use biometrics like facial scanning to determine age to allow someone on a platform.

It's failing miserably.

Why?

Because it's just the technology is doing a bad job at identifying the person's age.

Like, for example, if I scan my face, it might say, you know, I'm 32 years old, but it could tell me that I'm 50.

It could tell me that I'm 18.

It could tell me that I'm 16.

It just depends on whatever that platform decides.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

Honestly, Ryan...

Yeah, and I have lived a crazy life.

So who knows what the... I don't know.

This is in particular with the last couple of weeks with Roblox.

So Roblox implemented this as a safety measure after a guy named Shalep, his name, he goes by, and myself went on some podcasts, talked about the dangers of that platform and showed some real examples, which I'll show you some stuff in a little bit.

But their way to combat this issue was, at least what it seems, is using...

kids, they have to scan their face and then they get grouped into, you know, other grouped into lobbies with other kids, their age that they determined from a third party company that we don't know what they're doing with the biometric data of the children's faces.

And a lot of the time they're getting it wrong.

And to make matters worse, you can go on eBay and buy accounts for certain age ranges.

So what do you think a predator is going to do with, let's say you get a 13-year-old account already verified Roblox for $15 on eBay.